Ministry as a professor at several leading theological seminaries.He is the author of more than sixty
It must be good that evil exists, because God sovereignly, providentially ordains only what is good. In terms of His eternal purpose, God has esteemed it good that evil should be allowed to happen in...
We do want progress in our knowledge and growth in our understanding, but we have to be careful not to be lured into the temptation to come up with something new just to be novel. THE
To me, there is nothing more comforting than knowing that there is a God of providence who is aware not only of every one of my transgressions but of every one of my tears, every one of my aches, and...
The work of perfecting our spiritual state is called glorification. Glorification does not take place in this life.
The punitive measures against murder underscore the gravity of the crime precisely because of the value of the victim.
The kingdom of God is not of the people, by the people, or for the people. It is a kingdom ruled by a King, and God does not rule by the consent of His subjects but by His sovereign authority. His rei...
The denial in Article XIX is very important. The framers of the confession are saying unambiguously that confession of belief in the inerrancy of Scripture is not an element of the Christian faith ess...
The author of Ecclesiastes made this declaration: To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die (Eccl. 3:1-2a). Likewise the author of He...
The Christian formula for the Trinity—God is one essence in three persons—may seem to be contradictory because we are accustomed to seeing one being as one person. We cannot conceive of how one being...
The Bible teaches that ifwe sin against one point of the law, we sin against the whole law. Does this not imply that sin is sin and that ultimately there are no degrees?
The Bible says, In the beginning God. The God we worship is the God who has always been. He alone can create beings, because He alone has the power of being. He is not nothing. He is not chance. He is...
That God in some sense foreordains whatever comes to pass is a necessary result of his sovereignty. In itself it does not plead for Calvinism. It only declares that God is absolutely sovereign over hi...
Somewhere, somehow, something must have the power of being. If not, we are left with only two options: (1) being comes from nothing or (2) nothing is (a contradiction). These options would be more mir...
Sometimes we struggle to grasp the biblical view of joy because of the way it is defined and described in Western culture today. In particular, we often confuse joy with happiness. In the Beatitudes (...
Real conversion is an experience of repentance and forgiveness before God. It is not merely praying a prayer, joining a Christian church, or receiving a sacrament. It is being brought to our knees by...
Prayer is not magic. God is not a celestial bellhop ready at our beck and call to satisfy our every whim.
Possessing Christ and despising the church is an intolerable contradiction. We cannot have Christ without embracing the church.
Paul's favorite description of himself was doulos, which means slave-one purchased for service. He said the same status applies to all believers, for we all have been bought at a price (1 Cor. 6:20)....
Needless to say, the reign of our Lord is a tremendous benefit for those who love Him and follow Him. For this reason, it is clearly better for us that Jesus left than if He had stayed.